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PEORIA -- An Illinois superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention has predicted that all the Illinois superdelegates will support Sen. Barack Obama at the convention.

Steve Powell, 44, of Mundelein, Il., is one of two "members at large" superdelegates. He and the other member-at-large superdelegate, Edward M. Smith, are both members...